Intrinsic Quotes

216 Intrinsic quotes by 169 unique authors

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments. — Robert Genn
There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When you say, 'I… — Rajneesh
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a… — Edward Norton
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton
I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. — Ina Garten
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. — Stephen Jay Gould
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions… — George Farquhar
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its… — Lucy Larcom
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin… — Jon Meacham
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic… — Ezra Miller
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because… — Nathan Myhrvold
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed… — David Ricardo
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that… — Salman Rushdie
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the… — Gustave Flaubert
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart. — Kwame Nkrumah
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its… — Freya Stark
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not… — Ellen Hopkins
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain… — Joan Didion
So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell… — Warren Ellis
Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned. — Ellen Hopkins
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless… — Moderata Fonte
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is… — Eric Hoffer

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